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AR/VR tech in Asia-Pacific: here’s where the money is
AR/VR will still mainly be a consumer play in APAC by 2026, but use cases for enterprises include training, collaboration, and (of course) the metaverse: IDC Read more…
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China now has a plan to ship over 25m VR devices by 2026
China has released its first action plan to ship more than 25 million virtual, augmented and mixed reality devices with a value exceeding $48 billion by 2026. Read more…
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What history tells us about the future of the metaverse
Metaverse platforms are here, but few are signing up and fewer come back. What’s going on? Those who remember the history of 3G may have an idea. Read more…
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Quest Pro brings Meta one step closer to the metaverse
Meta unveils its Quest Pro VR/MR headset, marking a milestone for Mark Zuckerberg’s break into the higher-end market for extended reality devices. Read more…
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Meta taps Qualcomm to make chips for its VR devices
Meta has signed an agreement to have chip-maker Qualcomm produce custom chipsets for its Quest VR devices, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platforms. Read more…
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Meta won’t pass metaverse Turing Test by throwing hardware at it
Meta is developing hardware designed to kickstart the metaverse by solving the visual Turing Test. But hardware is not the real problem. Read more…
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Qualcomm’s Amon bullish on smartphones despite economic slowdown
At WEF, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon sees growth ahead for high-end smartphones, even as talk about an economic slowdown dominates the event. Read more…
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Legs are the hardest part of you to put in the metaverse
How come Meta’s metaverse avatars got no legs? The answer: legs are hard to replicate, and users may not want them anyway. Read more…
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The next steps for tech: computerize humans or humanize computers?
The next steps are extraordinarily important and the choices are whether we computerize humans or humanize computers. Or both. Or neither. Read more…
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Invact Metaversity raises $33m to develop metaverse university platform
Invact Metaversity – founded by former Twitter India boss Manish Maheshwari – offers an immersive virtual learning platform for the metaverse. Read more…
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Meta adds personal space tool to combat metaverse harassment
Meta is launching a tool for VR users to maintain personal space boundaries as concerns mount about sexual harassment in the metaverse. Read more…
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Leaving our world two ways is cool, but people are getting hurt
Leaving our world seems to be a focus for humanity. We are either burying ourselves in immersive environments or heading for outer space. Read more…
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Metaverse hospital? Asian healthcare facilities explore future
Healthcare providers are considering how VR and AR might help in the future, when patients use the metaverse to assist with treatment. Read more…
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Sexual harassment in the metaverse isn’t virtual – it’s real
The metaverse already has a sexual harassment problem. What are companies like Meta Platforms going to do about it? Read more…
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VR and the metaverse could make data surveillance even worse
With VR sets collecting even more data on us than traditional screens, the metaverse could take data surveillance to new levels of creepy. Read more…
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The metaverse moves from something out of a sci-fi novel toward reality
The metaverse concept is not new, but to many people, it still sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel: a parallel, virtual environment. Read more…
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Nvidia unveils new tools in bid to be ‘the plumbing’ of the metaverse
Nvidia releases new Omniverse tools for developers to create a metaverse of virtual worlds – and use a lot of Nvidia’s chips in the process. Read more…
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Consumer 5G is here (or coming soon) and Asia is leading the way
Consumer 5G is here. YouGov has published its International Telco Report 2021, and has been asking people their thoughts on 5G. Read more…
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AR is growing faster than we thought – will AR and VR change our reality?
AR is growing faster than we thought and we now have numbers that support this. Will AR and VR take us to the next level of internet. Read more…
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Advertising is being tested in VR – it’s not working, so what is the future?
Advertising in VR just felt wrong. From the moment that Facebook announced that it was going to trial it, we were waiting for the backlash. Read more…